Month: November 2020

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State coach Bruce Weber doesn’t have to look far to find some inspiration when it comes to winning with freshmen. His counterpart in football, Chris Klieman, has them starting just…

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Hurricane Iota battered Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast and flooded some stretches of neighboring Honduras that were still under water from Hurricane Eta two weeks earlier, leaving authorities struggling to assess damage after…

There has never been more disparity across the NFL than this season. A league built on parity has 15 teams with at least six wins and 12 others with three or fewer, the most ever…

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State University has canceled its fall commencement set for this weekend as the coronavirus outbreak worsened on campus and across the state.  University officials announced the cancellation Tuesday morning, the…

There was no dancing on the court after a March Madness victory. No bounding onto the stage in a spiffy suit to meet the commissioner in June. The coronavirus pandemic wiped out the traditional end…

Brant McGhee gave the Communion Meditation about the dangers of worrying. Sin makes us worry about the future, regret the past and complicates the present. None of us know if we have a future after…

Square B 4-H Club met Nov. 9 out in the country with 11 members answering roll call with their favorite candy. Jennifer Terrell, 4-H extension agent, and MaKayla Stroud, 4-H program assistant, were guests from…

In early January, about the only thing the world’s scientists knew for sure about the novel coronavirus was its genetic profile. Now, some 300 days later, vaccine developers are on the brink of a major…

DeLena (Dee) Lou Henkle, 78, of Abilene, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. She was born Aug. 21, 1942, in Iola, to Clarence and Frances Cruse. Dee graduated from Iola High School in 1960. She…

The Marmaton Valley Junior High girls rolled to a  29-9 win over Oswego on Thursday. The Wildcats led 4-0 after one quarter, 12-2 at halftime and 20-5 after three.  Dani Deer poured in 13 points,…